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Article: Portraits of Buddhist Women.(Book Review)
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- Buddhist-Christian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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PORTRAITS OF BUDDHIST WOMEN. By Ranjini Obeyesekere. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 231 pp.
This book is a translation of part of the Saddharmaratnavaliya (Jewel Garland of the True Doctrine; hereafter SR), a thirteenth-century Sinhala translation of the Dhammapada (hereafter DA), a fifth-century Buddhist text. Out of the entire collection of 360 stories contained in the SR, this book includes twenty-six that have women as central characters.
The author succeeds in part with her stated purpose to "illuminate the position of women in the early-medieval Buddhist worlds of India and Sri Lanka" as well as to "provide insights into ...